A rival hacker group to the infamous Lizard Squad has been discovered quietly using a previously unknown global botnet of compromised broadband routers to carry out DDoS and Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks.
The discovery was made by security firm Incapsula (recently acquired by Imperva), which first noticed attacks against a few dozen of its customers in December 2014 since when the firm estimates its size to exceed 40,000 IPs across 1,600 ISPs with at least 60 command and control (C2) nodes.
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The discovery was made by security firm Incapsula (recently acquired by Imperva), which first noticed attacks against a few dozen of its customers in December 2014 since when the firm estimates its size to exceed 40,000 IPs across 1,600 ISPs with at least 60 command and control (C2) nodes.
more here....http://www.networksasia.net/article/mystery-botnet-hijacks-broadband-routers-offer-ddos-hire.1431933013